Adebayo Akinfenwa Quotes

Adebayo Akinfenwa

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 10, 1982

I'm not a gambler and I never have been.

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Beast Mode On is a state of mind. Beast Mode is about applying yourself and defying the limitations people put on you.

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People only see what they want to see and sometimes you can't do anything about that, so you just pick up the baton and you just run with it.

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If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.

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During my career I've come back to clubs after the summer break to see one of my team-mates not really at it because he's been denied a move to a bigger club for whatever reason, and you can see in his body language that he doesn't want to be there and that kind of thing is massively disruptive and negative.

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I am not a small guy - I will be the first to say it.

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If you have a love for something, you persevere.

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Training to be a tough tackler isn't easy - you don't want to injure yourself or team-mates so it's crucial that you have self-belief in your abilities and strength.

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As long as I am feeling good I will play football. As long as I am feeling fit, strong and being affective on and off the pitch, I will play the game I love.

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I think if you score lots of goals but nobody likes you as a person then it stands for nothing.

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To have the support of your team-mates is massive.

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I'd always been one of the strongest players in the game, but officially in 'Fifa 14' I was the strongest in the world. If they say so, I must be. I like that.

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People concentrate on 'oh you can't do that,' or 'you're a bit too big for that' or whatever, rather than just concentrating on what you're good at. It's about being comfortable with the skin you're in, being comfortable within your own mind.

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My arms are probably the same size as John Terry's legs.

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Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

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Liverpool are not used to playing a 16-and-a-half stone striker.

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I'm a big believer in not getting too high when you are winning and not getting too low when things aren't going well.

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I'm not one of those players who always gets to games or watches every game on TV. If a game is on and I'm free, I'll watch it but I won't make my schedule around a football match.

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John Barnes was my idol growing up and he's the reason I've supported Liverpool. I play nothing like him, though!

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I know that I don't look like a footballer but I've always enjoyed working out and I've always been bigger than most people out there. I come from big stock. If you see my brothers and me together, we look like a wrestling tag team trio.

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